Camper to Container Home

Our concrete floors! Hello again! I have enjoyed sharing this crazy project with you, I hope you enjoy it too! Today I wanted to fill yall in on our concrete floors! (Pun intended.) Since we had decided not to drywall our interior container walls, we thought it would be best to pour concrete floors on the top two levels. We knew we needed to put a pretty good vapor barrier down because of the pesticides in the container floors. Also, any other kind of flooring (short of just applying a thick epoxy) would have required a lot of custom cutting to accommodate for the corrugation of the container walls. A "before shot of the container floors" We didn't have to reinforce the floors in the containers to accommodate the weight of the concrete, but we did have to in the open area between them. In the sections between the containers, we screwed 2x12 sections between each joist as blocks to prevent the floor joists from twisting. We put in 2 rows that were each 1/3 the l

Insulation!!  One day my husband found some 2.5 inch foam insulation panels on craigslist for ahway cheaper than retail. He needed them ASAP. The only people who were available asap to travel the 2.5 hours to Arkansas to get them was me and my mother. So we hooked my mom's 16' stock trailer to our Excursion and hit the road Thursday morning. It was raining when we left. It didn't stop raining. We finally got into Arkansas and found the chicken farm where they were dismantling some industrial size chicken houses. (I am not an industrial size chicken farmer so please let me know if I do not refer to something by its proper technical term.) I was in sporadic contact with the owner and he told me there would be a "crew" to help load the foam boards. Still raining. We pulled in, and a dampish gentleman met us at the gate. He was upset, because his "crew" didn't show up, but he pointed the way. The chicken houses are long, maybe 100 ft